Hello Robert,
thank you very much for your answer.
I am using Maxima on both Windows and Unix.
But the error message is from Windows. Could you please explain me how
can I recompile Maxima via the Lisp program ASDF.
Many thanks in advance for your efforts.
Best
Sara
2012/5/30 Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>:
> On 2012-05-30, Sara Pashmineh <sarapashm at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> ?Error in PROGN [or a callee]: The storage for CONS is exhausted.
>> Currently, 58713 pages are allocated.
>> Use ALLOCATE to expand the space.
>
> Well, this means that Maxima created so many expressions that it used up
> all of the memory that was allocated by the Lisp runtime. I suspect it
> is not too useful to try to expand the memory allocation -- probably if
> you expand it, the new space will get used up too.
>
> If I am not mistaken, GCL (which is the Lisp implementation used by the
> version of Maxima you have) is more likely to run out of memory than
> some other Lisp implementations. So my recommendation (no guarantees
> here) is to try running Maxima with a different Lisp.
>
> If you are using Windows -- you can try CCL or ECL. I think there are
> slightly out of date packages with Windows installers for CCL or ECL or
> maybe both. Aside from that, it is relatively straightforward to
> recompile Maxima via the Lisp program ASDF. I can explain how to do that
> if you are interested.
>
> If you are on some form of Unix or you can get access to such a system
> -- you can try CMUCL, SBCL, or Clisp. The rpm (Redhat) packages
> available on the Sourceforge download page are built with Clisp, but
> again, it is straightforward to recompile via ASDF.
>
> By the way, can you post the program which you are running? Perhaps
> someone else can try it on their own system to see what happens.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
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